We have these major international corporations that clearly know better but to make a buck theyre looking to hook a whole new generation of young people on tobacco products and we have to stop them. The minimum price for a pack of cigarettes will jump from $10.50 to $13, the highest price floor for cigarettes in the nation, de Blasio said
A case study of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota co-authored by Truth Initiative researchers shows that restricting menthol cigarette sales from convenience stores in the two cities would result in projected annual profit losses of about $6M for Minneapolis and $4M for Saint Paul contrasting sharply with tobacco industry estimates of losses of at least six times greater
The tobacco industry has fooled the public for long enough its time to ban filters once and for all.
Currently, cigarette filters do not contain asbestos as they are primarily made of cellulose acetate
[They are] exporting, saying We dont know where its going, and to countries which are too small for the amount they receive, Joossens said
